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Zebrafish is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1545-8547Verify ISSN ↗1557-8542Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 216 / 520 | 58th | Q2 |
| Developmental Biology | 66 / 78 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Zebrafish is Q2 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 216 of 520) and Q4 in Developmental Biology (rank 66 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
Zebrafish is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.373, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
Zebrafish is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1545-8547 and its online ISSN is 1557-8542.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zebrafish has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 1.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #181 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Zebrafish published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 80. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.4%), Brazil (17.2%) and China (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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